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Intel has confirmed that its Skylake processors suffer from a bug that can cause a system to freeze when performing complex workloads. Discovered by mathematicians at the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), the bug occurs when using the GIMPS Prime95 application to find Mersenne primes.

"Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel Core family of products. This issue only occurs under certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be encountered when running applications like Prime95. In those cases, the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behaviour."

Intel has developed a fix, and is working with hardware partners to distribute it via a BIOS update.

The star of the show, and some of the men behind the 'bot.

DULLES, Va.—Regular watchers of the annual Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) video game speedrun marathon are probably intimately familiar with the power of TASBot (short for tool-assisted speedrun robot). Two years ago, the emulator-fueled bot used its controller-port interface to write a simple version of Pong and Snake on top of a running Super Mario World cartridge. Last year, TASBot outdid itself by using a copy of Pokemon Red and a Super Game Boy to force a live, IRC-based Twitch chat through an unmodified Super Game Boy.

By now, simply taking over a game and replacing it with a brand new app was beginning to feel a little predictable. So this year, TASBot decided to show off a new skill. At the AGDQ marathon, the bot set out to edit new features onto a game that's still running in active memory. TASBot wanted to be magnanimous with its new capabilities, too, allowing human players (and livestream viewers) the opportunity to edit the game on the fly.

But just how did TASBot—and the team of coders behind it—intend to turn an old game of Super Mario World, running on a standard SNES, into a heavily editable game of Super Mario Maker? Luckily, we had a behind-the-scenes invite to the event and the opportunity to find out.

David Bowie—an icon whose music and swagger influenced the lives of so many people—has died at the age of 69 after an 18-month-long battle with cancer, his son Duncan Jones confirmed on Monday morning.

The news of Bowie's death comes just a few days after the megastar, known for hits that include Space Oddity, Heroes, and The Man Who Sold The World, released his latest album, Blackstar.

Bowie was not only a hugely influential musician to millions of fans during a career spanning 50 years, but he was also something of a pioneer in the online world, too.